Evolution of a buoyant outflow in the presence of complex topography: The Dardanelles plume (North Aegean Sea)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Androulidakis, Y S ^a   Kourafalou, V H ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; EXPERIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANALYTICAL CALCULATION; BLACK SEA; COASTAL CURRENTS; COMPLEX TOPOGRAPHIES; CORIOLIS; DARDANELLES; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYBRID COORDINATE OCEAN MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; NORTH AEGEAN; NORTH AEGEAN SEA; NUMERICAL MODELS; OPPOSING FLOW; OUTFLOW RATE; PROCESS-ORIENTED; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECTS; UPPER LAYER; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND FORCING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTICYCLONE; BALLOON OBSERVATION; BUOYANCY FORCING; CORIOLIS FORCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FORCING;

AEGEAN SEA; BLACK SEA; CANAKKALE [TURKEY]; DARDANELLES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; TURKEY;

EID: 79955402176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006316     Document Type: Article

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